I love this museum in Portsmouth by @wilkinsoneyre and @pbpw_lon (interiors) It has been purposely designed to house and display the Mary Rose warship found at the bottom of the sea after lying there for 437 years. It is clad with black stained timber as a reference to the traditional boat sheds. Guess what its form is inspired from?

Bates Motel is the contemporary loose prequel of the classic masterpiece Psycho, and stars Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore. While the chemistry betweem Vera and Highmore are the best part of the show, the side plots and new characters in the world of "Psycho" are a bit for the lack of a better word sort of "meh", at least in the first 2 seasons. The modern take to Psycho is a little bit distracting, especially when you have Vera Farmiga playing Norma Louise Bates who is a woman who clearly lives in a wrong time. Shes a woman of the 50s, the romantics of the musical choices ie Sandman by the Chordettes being a main one. She cooks and cleans like a typical woman of the said patriarchal era. However her ideology seems way too backwards in the modern world. Her son Norman played scarily brilliant by Freddie Highmore who probably studied every quirk of Anthony Perkins, is a boy also from the 50s era who is trying hard to escape the wall his mother built. The psychological drama is incredibly well crafted, truly gauging the nature of the Bates family from Hitchcocks original. However the world around them feels unnecessary at times, the forced characters like a young girl Norman likes in Season 1 is bland and pathetic. If if focused more on Norman and Norma and connected it to Psycho without the certain subverted episode in Season 5, Bates motel would be an amazing prequel. It comes off as a prequel and an alternative fanfiction and sometimes it lands and other times it misses badly. The show is great at times and boring at others and gets a 6/10 #psychologicalhorror#contempary#tvshow#anthonyperkins#freddiehighmore#verafarmiga#alfredhitchcock#netflix#series#moviereviewer#moviecritic#movies#critic#films#cinematography#horror#horrorfans#batesmotel#popcornclubkzn#psycho#filmmaking